Death in Slow Motion: Women and Girls Under Taliban Rule

Remember Girls Not Brides? Good luck. You're gonna need it.

Abandoned. Erased. Alone. Afghan women are on their own. Nobody will come to their aid. No matter what.

In the middle the image from the Amnesty International report on women and girls under Taliban rule. To the sides Degas' painting of Dante and Virgil who are about to enter hell.

December 02 is International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. The obvious topic this year is the world cup football in Qatar. In 2014 Deadspin, a sports magazine, wrote "Qatar's World Cup Expected To Take More Lives Than 9/11", which is about 3.000. Qatar is furious. As it turns out at least double that number didn't survive. According to the Guardian some 6,500 migrant workers died in Qatar, building a 200 billion dollar infrastructure for the world cup. And that's a very conservative estimate. There's more than enough coverage - but very little action - when it comes to a world cup built on modern slavery, let's focus on Afghanistan instead.

lf a Woman Needs It, Should She Be Spanked?

Only if she deserves it

Suddenly Dutch has developed a healthy respect for hairbrushes.

Women can learn a lot from men. Yes, that's right. Mostly by paying attention to what is left out, a pesky little thing called consent. Who needs that anyway in our consensual non-consensual community?

Found this news paper clipping in some hidden folder on my computer. No doubt, I saved it to write about at some later time. Don't know when it was published, probably back in the 'good old days' when men were men and women knew their place'.

What Wouldn't You Do With 44 Billion Dutch?

Thanks for nothing Mr. Musk

Dutch' birthday bash in full swing. Hardcore. If only. (image: Divine Bitches)

Hardcore hangover. What else can I say? My birthday bash was beautiful. Until my alarm went of the next morning. Without 44 billion in the bank. At least this time I didn't wake up with a pillow in my arms instead of her. So not complaining if it was her instead. Empty arms hurt much more than an empty bank account. Some guys have all the luck.

Blue Birthday

11+11+'22 = 44!

Today is the day!

Bust of Her Royal Highness Noor Inayat Khan near the British Museum in Central London (image: Noor Inayat Khan Memorial Trust)

Twitter is sort of an LBO, leveraged buy-out, meaning Elon Musk pays much less than 44 billion. The majority is a loan force-fed onto Twitter. Yes, that's right. Elon Musk buys the company with Twitter's own money. The little blue bird is now looking at an interest bill of about one billion annually, which it cannot sustain for long. There are going to be savings, cuts and raids - finraids. If Twitter has a pension fund and Musk smart lawyers, they're gonna bleed it dry. And that's just one example. Welcome to vampire capitalism 101.

Gwyneth Paltrow Goes Hardcore Vanilla With 30K Bondage Chair

Just when you think Halloween is over

Somebody please fire master [furniture designer] Mark [Brazier]

Elise Graves and Sasha don't need a 30K boudoir chaise to enjoy themselves. [3] [4] [Image: Bondageliberation]

"Blurring the line between ridiculous and awesome since 2015." This one is squarely on the ridiculous side. Badass Gemma [Beddington] said it first and best in Saturday's The Guardian: 'Goops gift guide just keeps on giving.' Including free inspiration. I'm gonna be a billionaire soon, but for poor folks like you 28.500 must be a lot of money. So why should you spend it on a Kiki de Montparnasse tufted boudoir chaise? Not even [rich] Dutch can come up with a single, comprehensive argument. And boy, it's ugly. You really wanna tie your slave to that? Better buy a workmate instead.

White Men Only

Don't know why now exactly but I've been wading through a lot of crap and nasty stuff this year whenever I looked up things for this blog. It happens. Also wears you out. So I decided to do something fun for Locktober. Everybody is obsessed this month with not having sex. How silly. Why not turn it around and book a session that involves ruined orgasms or post orgasm torture? How's that for being a rebel slave? 

Take Me Higher

Yes Boss

Thank you [for the music] Boss Ross.

A couple of very smart guys lifting Diana Ross higher. Chris von Wangenheim shot this famous image in 1978.

Last time on Face the Music: Diana Ross - the Boss. As I was searching for a copy of the sleeve, I ran into a much more appropriate image. A group of hunks hoists La Ross in the air like the queen she is. Which pretty much sums up the rest of her life.  

[Verse 1]
♫ Fancy me
Thought I had my degree
In life and how love
Ought to be a run
I had a one step plan to prove it
Guide in my pocket for fools
Folly and fun
Love had to show me one thing... ♫

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She's training the dummy right now.

Lovely gif that I ran into. She's just standing there in her swim suit and all, full female power at the tips of her fingers. And she knows. He thinks he knows, feeling all cozy and warm to be so privileged. It's gonna be a rude wake up to the true meaning of her female power. Any moment now he's about to find out. History is full of women consensually hurting men for fun. This is even better. What makes it so awesome is her looking like the boss she is. Effortless, evil, natural - mostly him bowing to her super powers. What a wonderful image.

What a boss lady. Love that expression on her face. Image might be from Clubdom.

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Face the music

The song that immediately comes to mind is Diana Ross' The Boss. Not because of the song but because it's La Ross. Personally I prefer the version by the Braxtons (Toni Braxton's younger sisters) but for today that would make little sense.

1978 Japanese sleeve for Diana Ross - The Boss [Today I choose the Dimitri from Paris remix. Click to listen]

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Nigeria: where are our girls?
Ukraine: where are our children?

The New York Times is one of several outlets that reports [€] on how Russia turns Ukrainian children into the spoils of war by abducting them and putting them up for adoption [I wrote auction, which I think says it all.]

"In the Siberian city of Salekhard along the Arctic Circle, Olga Druzhinina said she adopted four children, aged 6 to 17, from around the Ukrainian city of Donetsk more than 1,600 miles away.

“Our family is like a small Russia,” Ms. Druzhinina said in an interview. “Russia took in four territories, and the Druzhinin family took in four children.”

She said she was awaiting a fifth child and considered the children fully Russian. “We are not taking what is not ours,” she said."

Red Wall of Bondage

Shibari in Tokyo

Who needs a red room of pain anyway?

This week it's Amsterdam Dance Event. No matter how much I love music, I'd rather be in Japan. That says something. Even if I were to hop on a plane tonight, I'd be too late to see this wonderful exhibition.

By chance I stumbled upon an article from Tokyo Kinky. Hajime Kinoko is a famous Japanese shibari artist. This May he tied models to the outside of a building for a shibari rope bondage installation and I just love it.

Not everybody was happy though. The installation took place during early evening with a number of families with young children in the area. Then again how hard can it be? Ever noticed the universal appeal Spider-Man has to the little ones? Just tell your children those are Spider-Woman's kids, practicing. Anyway it's a wonderful exhibition.

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Face the music

Wonderwall is about an imaginary friend who's gonna save you from yourself. Don't believe that. Neill Gallagher wrote it for his girlfriend and future wife. Only when they divorced, he said it was not about her. He clearly was right when he wrote it. Only question that remains is who's gonna save him from his own silliness now. 

Oasis - Wonderwall [click to listen]

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Somewhere in April Ukrainian forces switched to NATO caliber ammunition. Big surprise. Talk about crossing the Rubicon. An excellent article in the New Yorker explains how underdog Ukraine managed to turn the tide because of their planning. From what I read, their decision that Kyiv should not fall, no matter what was key. The other one was trust no-one, including the United States until they've proved their loyalty, which took some time. The article gave me a whole new appreciation of Ukraine.

How I Met Your Mother

Booked a session

Mistress Kaz B [image Kaz B]

You know how your Mum or Dad say, lend him or her a hand a you just do it. Of course it's never five minutes, usually one or two days. And it's not just me, my friends tell me exactly the same thing. Nobody even gives it second thought. That makes what comes next a little intimidating - in the most vanilla sense of the word.

Warrior Women of the Ukraine

Fighting females, warrior women, words mean nothing.

Worst Locktober joke ever:

"A woman yelling at a heavily armed Russian soldier atop his tank in Konotop, “Don’t you know where you are? You’re in Konotop. Every other woman here is a witch. You’ll never get an erection, starting tomorrow.”

Nope, they're not witches, these are wonderful women.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was born in 1916 in Balaya Tserkov, then a Soviet town, now a Ukrainian one just outside of Kiev. She killed 308 Nazis in 1941, most at the Siege of Odessa, with a sniper rifle. Her nick name was Lady Death. "The higher the number of Pavlichenko’s confirmed kills rose, the more dangerous her mission assignments became. This included counter sniping, or engaging in duels with enemy snipers. Pavlichenko won every duel she fought, including one duel that lasted three days. In the end, Pavlichenko stated the enemy made “one move too many,” and became one of the 36 enemy snipers she took down."